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Originally Posted by sperbonzo
In the end the only way to make governments more representative and responsive to people is to make countries as small as possible. The EU should be broken up.... Frankly I think that the US should be broken up into the individual states. This move toward looser borders and global governments is a VERY VERY bad thing, and they go hand in hand.
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No sorry I disagree.
Imagine all small countries with their own political directions, their own thirst for resources, their own multi-polar aims. Heck you have the origins of WW1 and 2 right there. The coal and steal community was exactly the reason to stop these things economically which then naturally progressed into the EU.
My American history wasn't good, but wasn't the american civil war down to differences between the northern and southern states and with no federal government controlling?
Of course you have a good point because there has been no proven political system, union or federal system of any sort that has been stopped wars entirely but I think war is more common when you have multi-polar countries gunning for power.